Scientists have found an ‘almost perfectly preserved’ skull of a previously unknown animal that lived some 230 million years ago and is the ancestor of most modern reptiles. Known as Taytalura alcoberi, this member of the Lepidosauromorpha, a group of reptiles that predates the dinosaurs, lived in what is now modern-day Argentina during the Late … Read more
Florida is set to experience cold temperatures on Christmas Day, along with a possibility of falling iguanas. The National Weather Service in Miami is alerting residents to be on the lookout for lifeless reptiles on the ground that are stunned by the cold. Iguanas are cold blooded creatures, so when temperatures drop below 45 degrees … Read more
Snakes put the brakes on Tesla: Work on new Berlin electric car factory stalls because of sleeping reptiles By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 GMT, 8 December 2020 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 8 December 2020 Tesla has revealed plans to raise £3.8billion as its work to build a German factory ran into … Read more
Winged reptiles like the pterodactyls may have ultimately become ‘deadly masters of the sky’ — but it took then 150 million years to reach this point, a study has found. Researchers from Reading, Bristol and Lincoln found that a series of steady improvements over this time improved the pterosaurs’ flying skills two-fold. Pterosaurs — which first … Read more
Better eye treatments could be developed as a result of a new study that found birds and reptiles have tears with a similar chemical composition to humans. Researchers from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, compared the makeup of bird and reptile tears as well as their structural patterns when they dry out. Before this … Read more
A 242 million-year-old reptile with a neck three times the length of its torso lived in the ocean, a 3D skull reconstruction reveals. Scientists describe the weird 20-foot-long creature and its incredible giraffe-like neck as a ‘paleontological absurdity’. Fossils of the creature, belonging to the Tanystropheus genus, were discovered back in 1852 and have been puzzling … Read more
Dragons of the desert: Scientists discover three new species of flying reptiles that lived in the Sahara more than 100 million years ago Professor David Martill, a palaeontologist at University of Portsmouth, led study It revealed a community of pterosaurs that inhabited prehistoric Morocco Identified from chunks of jaws and teeth and had wingspans of … Read more